On Fri, Jul 27, 2018 at 5:02 PM, Michael Everson via Unicode < unicode@unicode.org> wrote:
> > Then how can you prove it is a case and not a stylistic variation? Let's > compare with a case of Hebrew or Arabic, for example. > Well, go ahead. Compare it. Show some example of Hebrew or Arabic that is > consistent with the evidence we have shown. > 1) Show evidence of titlecasing in Hebrew or Arabic. > 2) Show evidence of ALL CAPS in Hebrew or Arabic. > 3) Show evidence of small caps in Hebrew or Arabic. > You won’t be able to, because there is no case in Hebrew or Arabic. > This implicitly asserts that caps are shown on the samples in N4712. But casing means there is a distinction between upper and lower case, however §8 of N4712 actually re-affirms that there is no distinction in Georgian. that is exactly what I am talking about: I do not see how the assumed existence of cases in the modern(!!) Georgian (please, do not refer to those 19th-century samples here, I am asking about the modern script state) is following from N4712. > The structure of the Georgian script is casing. The modern standard > orthographic use made of case is unique to Georgian. This was easy to > describe. > There is no orthographic use of case in the modern Georgian. Emphatic, casual, expressive -- yes, but not orthographic. Neither N4712 shows that, nor you provide an example here. > N4712 describes the two kinds of orthographic rules which have been used > for Georgian. To summarize again: > A) Modern Georgian orthography uses lowercase letters always, unless > uppercase letters are used in which all the letters in the word are > uppercase. > This brings us back to the question of caps vs. stylistic variation. So, better to leave it to the first thread (if any). > > What do you mean by "orthographic", by the way -- simply a habit of > writing, or whether a written text is correct or not? > “Orthography” is the same thing as “spelling”. > Then yes, my points are correct.
